NEWPORT GLOBAL SUMMIT ADVISORY BOARD

Stuart Sundlun

President, Knowlwood Capital, LLC

Stuart Sundlun is the President of Knollwood Capital LLC, a firm focused on global private equity opportunities, particularly renewable energy opportunities. From 2006 to 2016, he was Vice Chairman of BMB Group LLC, a firm he helped organize in 2006.

In 2012, Stuart was a founding member of Broadway Resources LLC, a private company currently drilling for oil in the Permian Basin in Texas, which was sold in 2014.

From 2000 to 2012, Stuart was a Senior Advisor to Triago SA, a Paris-based placement agent for private equity funds, secondary fund limited partnership interests, and selected private equity companies.

Stuart was a co-founder and served on the Board and Investment Committee of the Dignity Fund L.P., which made loans to microfinance organizations worldwide from 2006 to 2011. From 2007 until 2012, he was a member of the Advisory Board of Charitybuzz.com, a leading provider of online auction services for not-for-profits and corporations seeking to expand their social responsibility activities. Since 2006, he has served on the Board of Directors of Whitewall Inc., a leading magazine on contemporary art.

From 1994 to 2004, as a managing director of Standard Overseas Partners, he structured private equity investments in real estate, oil and gas, and media in Russia with significant international partners.

Previously, Stuart was a Managing Director of Global Emerging Markets, a firm that invested in worldwide emerging public and private companies. He began his career as an investment banker in corporate finance at Lehman Brothers and, before that, at Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was the Mexican Liaison Officer after completing the Credit Training Program.

In not-for-profit activities, Since 2011, Stuart has been a member of the Executive Committee of The Common Good. This New York-based not-for-profit organization organizes discussions of leading political issues, both domestic and international, with significant policy and opinion makers. From 2013-2019, he served as a board member and treasurer of The Art Production Fund, a not-for-profit aimed at bringing the works of leading artists to the public.

Stuart holds an MBA in finance from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a BA, cum laude, in government from Harvard University. After Harvard, He was awarded a Rotary Club Fellowship and spent one year at La Pontificia Catolica in Lima, Peru. During this period, he also served as a Special Assistant to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) at the OAS's Sixth and Seventh General Assemblies.